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Endless war as a means to keep Pentagon’s budget

Published: 29 December, 2009, 04:08
Edited: 01 January, 2010, 03:16

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Today the US is spending more on war than the governments of 50 American states spend on education, healthcare and welfare of the American people, says journalist Sherwood Ross.

“American people who voted for peace are finding that we have a greater war economy than ever before,” said Ross. “The idea of the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex is not necessarily to win the war, but to wage continuous wars to keep this inflated Pentagon budget sky high – and that is what they are succeeding in doing.”

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peter I assume you mean the Rothschild family? I think the best and the most logical way to address the toxic effect of this family dynasty on the world economy and world peace is to avoid conflating this family's economy monopoly with their ethnicity as Jewish. The conflation of the Rothschild with Jew identity is now common among certain conspiracy theorists. I think it is very bad idea. As otherwise honest people can be silence and their careers destroyed by labeling them as anti-Semitic. Even when evidence clearly show that almost all the members of oligarchs who looted Russia in the 1990s or of Jewish heritage, it is pertinent not link their identity as Jewish with their sickening crime of looting Russia. in the same way, let is avoid coupling this family and its financial empire its origin as a Jewish family. The fact Vladimir Putin was able to arrest some key mmebers of the Rothschild’s front oligarchs and put them in prison and confiscated their ill gained loot of Russia’s wealth means that the Rothschild’ are not invincible! The best way to deal with the U.S financial monopoly is for Russia to stand strong and not play into the hands of the new neo-imperialists, avoid purchasing into their language of fake democracy. This is the only the Rothschild empire can be defeated and Russia is the only power which can defeat the this family empire.

peter December 31, 2009, 02:18
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It would have been too easy for other big countries to diversify their trade and reserves into other World currencies if it hadn’t been for $600 trillion financial power backing the US dollar by one World dominant Jewish family which owns the fed, Wall Street and London stock exchange. Not only these but they own most of America and UK and to protect their interest they invest heavily in US military, Pentagon, CIA and FBI. The problem with this is US and UK population had to suffer to sustain the interest of a few.

Sarah December 30, 2009, 23:53
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Meslin The real aim is not harm the American people and social institutions but to hit the military-industrial complex and the best way to do that as many nations as posible to trade currencies other than the U.S dollar. This report, visually and with hard data shows the American war machine is sustained by just printing money and the way to end this monstrous empire is to end the dominance of the dollar. This will happen but how soon. Happy new year! Sarah